Head - Business Finance - Automotive OEM

Key Responsibilities

- Driving business & financial performance including financial planning, budgeting, cost accounting, cash flow management, tax planning etc.

- Responsible for monitoring, reporting and forecasting business financials viz volumes, revenue, EBITDA, ROCE, BEP by analyzing budget assumptions v/s actual trends for discussion/ debate to senior management and to take timely corrective actions/ plans to achieve the objectives.

- Ensuring timely & robust MIS to the management with suggestive comments on operations and cost optimization for achieving budgeted parameters and releasing alerts & exception reporting, thereby enabling appropriate and timely decision making.

- Responsible for Capex and Working Capital Management

- Responsible for putting in place limits of authority in Capex and Operational expenditure.

- Ensuring controls of costs within budgets and planned expenditure

- Improving financial and business controls including COSO compliance etc.

- Process excellence, analytics and automation.

- Project management.

- Statutory & Internal audits.

- Handling commercial & legal issues.

- Responsible for driving enterprise risk management process and manage corporate governance process.

Functional Knowledge / Skills / Experience:

- Strong experience of 15+ years including in business finance.

- Experience in setting up a standard accounting systems and procedure with tight month end reporting deadlines

- Knowledge of IFRS including new developments in statutory compliance/new Accounting Standards

- Comprehensive knowledge of SAP and other financial IT systems.

- Strong analytical skills; and innovative and collaborative approach to foster conducive & harmonious relations with all stakeholders.

- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.

- Proven ability to transfer knowledge and motivate team members.

Personality

- High energy level, passion, commitment, professional approach

- Global mindset and High standard of business ethic and personal integrity.

- Positive attitude and a solution-driven approach.

- Ability to excel under tremendous pressure, tough deadlines and challenging internal & external environment.